, 1887-08-28
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$40, 200 in prizes will be distributed.
Butte City, Mont, is hugging itself
for Joy because it will have Il street rail
way in operation this fall. Cheyenne
may take a good deal Of comfort from
the same reflection.
A coroner seems to be a very necessary
adjunct to the civilization prevailing in
the northern end of the county. 1t
would prove a great saving to the tax
payers if the official residence of the cor
oner were changed from Cheyenne to
Lusk, Manville, or Shawnee. He would
certainly prove n very handy man to have
around those neighborhoods.
Selling suburban lots to the music of a
brass band is something new in Chey-
enne's history of development. but if we
are going to have a big real estate boom
let us have all the theatrical frills which
riveted popular attention in Omaha and
Kansas City.
MI. A. Idelman, who returned home
from a southern tour last evening, says
the Burlington will probably not reach
Sterling, Colo, before the early part of
next week. East of that region the road
runs through a sandy section. Consider
able annoyance has been experienced
owing to storms which have scanned the
roadbed. From what he could see and
learn he does not believe the Burlington
will reach here before November, but so
far as completed it is a model road.
As Ignatius Donnelly has now settled
to his own satisfaction that W. Shakes
peare didn't write the plays which bear
his name, he might cover himself with
glory by going a step farther and endeavor
to clear up the mystery that has SO long
enshrouded the alleged assault committed
upon our esteemed fellow countryman
Billy Patterson.
The territorial teachers will capture the
university town this week. Cheyenne, as
usual, will send a big contingent, and the
meeting will no doubt be a great success.
The past week has been one of brass
bands, chilly weather, and mild excite,
ment. The trial of Mccoy will probably
focus public attention this week, while
the Wyoming fair will be the biggest
thing on wheels next week. Altogether
the early fall is starting in with a litera.
flourish OF trumpets.
1t is a rather amusing task to follow
the evolutions OF the Ute campaign in
Colorado. From day to day the reader is
left in narrowing suspense. A terrific
encounter is always impending, and the
eager attention of the public is kept
strained in the fearful expectation thai
something is about to drop. Occasionally
the news of an awe-inspiring encounter
comes along, and one is gratifed to learn
the dead and wounded are receiving
proper attention. A later telegram bring:
the joyful but confusing intelligence tina
there are no dead or wounded, for tn,
very good and sufficient reason hat there
has been no The reader vii
peruse last nights dispatches with avid
ity. He will there discover that all tn,
preliminaries Of a great battle are WORKED
up with the grotesque realism character
istic of DIETRICH Kn~ickerbocker. An am
buscade is averred through the a~lertnes
Of the scouts, and the Indian,
boldly emerge from their hiding
places, probably realizing in theil
uncouth way that there is less danger a
point blank targets to the militia thai
from stray bullets. The militia, on thei
side perform prodigeis of valor. The de-
vastating encounter is waged with dread
full violence for three long hours, at tn
end OF which time, as an evidence Of goOC
faith and not necessarily for publication
the militia ~tearfully haul of one dea,
companion. Even he is perhaps
not very dead and in the course O
twenty-four hours may be given telegraph
ic resurrection as was the case wit
Colorow's hopeful son and heir. Not
withstanding the many grotesque feature
things are very far from being in a desiI
able way. The military firebrands hav
sbolbSu SOuhaRlhblOu anu ART tnRdBeu /
the herculean task Of quenching it wit
oil. How it may end it is impossible t
determine. The infusion of a little CON
mon sense into the inflated military CHIEF
tains might prove fatal, but it would nc
be a bad thing for the state OF Colorad
at large.
The Rock Springs Independent raise
serious objections to the reduction by tn
territorial equalization board of sS7 ,429i
the assessment OF railroad lands as re
turned by the Sweetwater county commi.
sioners. Commenting on the matter tn
same paper says: The railroad owl
twenty miles of land on each side of th
track, and in this 1868, 400 acres of Ian
in this county are thousands of acres {
the richest coal lands in the territory
land that on the government section
valued at $40 per acre, but which th
Union Pacific would not sell at any pric,
They will sell none of their land for LEI
than 81 per acre in large blocks, and eve